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Gold and silver, and gold and coloured micro-mosaic.
Gold and silver, and gold and blue, green, pink, red, white and shades of brown micro-mosaic. Of slightly convex oval form with a pin fastening across the back. In the middle is a bust of Bacchus in profile to left, wearing a vine wreath on his head, worked in coloured mosaic reserved in a gold ground. On the gold rim there are four applied gold beads separating a repeating motif of a circular cabochon flanked by kite-shaped motifs: on the right and left, a green cabochon blanked by red and white kite-shapes, and at the top and bottom, a red cabochon flanked by blue and white kite-shapes.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by Mrs J. Hull Grundy
Length: 4.4 cm
Width: 3.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1983-11-28) by Hull Grundy, J., Mrs
19th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1860
CE
-
1870
CE
Possibly by Castellani, but not marked
Decoration
composed of
glass
( coloured)
Frame
composed of
gold
Accession number: M.74-1983
Primary reference Number: 131091
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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